First of all, you need to fix your HTML. An anchor is an inline element and may not contain div, p etc. This may give you unexpected results cross-browser and scripting on top of an invalid DOM is not a good idea to begin with.
--Klaus On 19 Jan., 12:11, Christoph Neymeyr <christ...@uddebo.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a situation where I have an image with a specific class. I need > to find the <a>-tags surrounding this items class, but could not make > is, as I have different situations that are totally dynamic - > unfortunately. > > <a href="..."><div><div><div><p><img class="thisClass"></p></div></ > div></div></a> > > and > > <a href="..."><b><img class="thisClass"><br>caption</b></a> > > Anybody knows of a good idea on how to select the surrounding <a>-tags > of all items with class="thisClass"? > > Thanks a lot - this made me headache... > > Christoph, using 1.2.6